Dr Yu-Ting Tang

Environmental Assessment

Environmental Management

Environmental Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment

Land Use

Human-Environmental Interaction

Sustainable Development

I acquired the knowledge of chemistry, pharmacology and molecular biology during my undergraduate years in the School of Pharmacy in the National Taiwan University. I worked in a cancer research lab since the summer break of my third years. It continued until I obtained a master degree in Biochemistry. Through experimenting using cells and genetic materials, I learned the logic of experiment designs. During the postgraduate study at Duke University, I further learnt the concept of risk assessment, applying the results of toxicological tests and pollutant fate and transport modelling to quantify the ecological and human health risk resulting from being exposed to environmental hazards.

I worked in an environmental consultant company in Ohio and performed human health risk assessments on polluted sites. I assisted organising the toxicological database used in the risk assessment guidance during the regulatory review of the brownfield redevelopment program under Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Then, I contributed to the establishment of human health risk assessment technique guidance for soil and groundwater pollution for the Environmental Protection Administration in Taiwan. After the guideline was announced in 2006, I provided advices to the responsible parties who expecting to establish the remediation strategies using the guidance.

I considered the policy framework for brownfield redevelopment in Taiwan transferred from the USA insufficient to handle the local brownfield issues and therefore focused my PhD study in the University of Nottingham on this issue. I later expanded my analyses on the effects of brownfield on environmental sustainability to social and economic sustainability.

Before coming to China from Nottingham, I was conducting post-doctoral research in the School of Geography. The work is supported by a European framework 7 project (Holistic management of brownfield regeneration, HOMBRE) to evaluate the potential of brownfield origination. I reviewed the possible economic indicators for brownfield origination, most of them relevant to deindustrialisation. My task is to establish possible evaluation criteria for the indicators.

Administration

Exams Officer

Career Development Officer

I have obtained the PGCHE certificate for teaching in the undergraduate courses in British higher education institute. The content in the undergraduate modules I teach covers the knowledge obtained during my post-graduate study and industrial working experiences.

I lead supervisee and co-supervise PhD students and act as an internal examiner for PhD candidates.

Module Convener: 

GEOG F002/EJ0ENV Introduction to Environment (2012-2013; 2022)

GEOG 1029/EJ1ESS Environmental Science and Society (2022)

GEOG 1028/EJ1TUT Research Skills (2012 to present) 
GEOG 1027/EJ1IED Interpreting Environmental Data (2012 to 2017)

GEOG 2051/EJ2TOX Toxicology of the Environmental Pollutants (2014 to 2018)

GEOG 3040/EJ3ENA Environmental Assessment (2015 to 2019)

Contributes to teaching for: 

GEOG 1029/EJ2ESS Environmental Science and Society (2019-2021)

GEOG 2048/EJ2RTU Research Tutorial

GEOG 2043/EJ2DIP Dissertation Preparation (2014-2018)

GEOG 3046/EJ3DIS Environmental Science Dissertation (2015-2019)

Invited Guest Lectures

Gaia STEM Lecture Series, March 18, 2023

On Human-Environmental Relationship: Putting Waste Management and Circular Economy in the Context of Biogeochemical Cycle